S'LABICALLY CHALLENGED

Credit: LA Times Crossword - Feb. 20, 2004

Merl Reagle (adapted)

If a college subject for dentists is FLOSSOPHY, what about .................

1. Famous cowgirl who didn't talk much

2. Christmas song about lambs

3. Flowers that grow in your sink

4. Most popular siesta spot in Mexico

5. What Fidel had after his operation

6. Name of Harry Belafonte's barber shop

7. Courteous, but impoverished citizens

8. Bad first effort from a Yiddish movie maker

9. Part of the Bible that turns its own pages

Answers:

1. Clamity Jane

2. Fleece Navidad

3. Drainiums

4. Snorin' Desert

5. A Cuban scar

6. "The Clipso"

7. Plight society

8. Drecktorial debut

9. Flippians

Notes:

4. Sonoran Desert

8. "Dreck" is Yiddish for junk.